Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson have won the last two points races, likely punching their tickets into the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Gordon, who won at Kansas, and Johnson, who won last week’s Coca-Cola 600, became the ninth and 10th different winners in 12 races this season. That’s the most winners after a third of the season since 2003.

Just two multiple winners — Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano — is another sign that drivers and teams are doing all they can to win under NASCAR’s new win-and-you’re-in Chase format. Want more evidence? How about an average of 27.7 lead chances per race, up 10 from last season.

But with 14 races remaining before the 10-race playoff, there are some big-name drivers who have not yet won.

And some of them excel at the next eight tracks on the schedule — Dover, Pocono, Michigan, Sonoma, Kentucky, Daytona, New Hampshire and Indy.

With the parity that is emerging, NASCAR looks to have a good shot to perhaps reach the maximum of 16 race winners in the Chase.

Which drivers are most likely to break through?

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Matt Kenseth

With 31 career victories, including seven last season, Kenseth should be due for another win. He’s running well with nine top-10 finishes and second in points, but hasn’t been able to break through yet this season. But he’s got some good tracks coming up, with two wins each at Dover, Michigan and Daytona. He’s also won at Kentucky and New Hampshire.

It would be a shock if Kenseth goes through the summer without at least one win.

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Tony Stewart

It’s been a full year since Stewart’s last Cup win, a victory last June at Dover. He’s got plenty of reasons for his struggles, namely a broken leg that caused him to miss the final 15 races of last season and required a long healing process.

He also has had to help oversee the expansion of Stewart-Haas Racing and key changes to three of the four teams. He’s been a bit busy and has gotten off to a slow start this season. Still, the three-time Cup champion has shown that he can turn it on at anytime. And now might be the time.

He’s got 17 career victories at the next eight tracks on the schedule, including four at Daytona and three at Dover and New Hampshire. If Stewart is indeed fully recovered, a win might be right around the corner.

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Brian Vickers

Vickers has just three career victories, but two of them have come at Michigan and New Hampshire. He has a strong record at both tracks, as well as Pocono. With five top-10 finishes (eighth in points), Vickers is running well this season. It would not be a surprise to see him back up his win last year at New Hampshire.

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Clint Bowyer

Bowyer has struggled this season but most of that has been due to horrible luck — like last week’s mysterious vibration while running well at Charlotte. If Bowyer can catch a break, he has proven he can win. His best bet is at New Hampshire, where he has two career victories, but he also has a road-course win at Sonoma.

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Kasey Kahne

Everyone knows that Kahne can win almost anywhere. You just never know when it’s going to come. He has had horrible luck the past two seasons and he and his team keep shooting themselves in the foot this season.

If they can put things together, however, he could win any of the upcoming races. He has wins at Pocono, Michigan, Sonoma and New Hampshire.

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Ryan Newman

Though 10th in points, Newman has gotten off to a bit of a slow start with Richard Childress Racing, with no top-five finishes and just four top-10s. He’s coming up on his best stretch of the season, however. He has 11 career victories at the next eight tracks, including three each at Dover and New Hampshire.

It might take some clever pit strategy to do it, but Newman could win anytime in the next two months.

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Greg Biffle

Biffle has two races circled on his calendar — the June 15 and Aug. 17 races at Michigan, where he has four career victories. The Michigan races represent Biffle’s best chances to win, though he also has victories at Dover (two), Pocono, Daytona and New Hampshire. Biffle has won in each of the past two seasons.

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Jamie McMurray

McMurray won the Sprint All-Star Race two weeks ago, but that doesn’t count toward the Chase. But the way he ran at Charlotte — fifth in the Coca-Cola 600 — shows that McMurray and his Chip Ganassi Racing team may be starting to turn the corner. His seven career victories have come at only four different tracks, but two of them are coming up — Daytona and Indy. McMurray has two wins at Daytona and won the 2010 Brickyard 400. He also runs well on 1.5-mile tracks, so don’t count him out at Kentucky.

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Kyle Larson

Larson, a rookie, has yet to win a Cup race, but no one would be surprised if he scores a victory to make the Chase. His best bet may be at 2-mile Michigan, the sister track of Auto Club Speedway in California, where he finished second in March. Larson looks to be at his best at the big, fast speedways, so Pocono, Kentucky and Indy might be possibilities. Maybe he follows in Denny Hamlin’s footsteps and masters Pocono as a rookie.

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Martin Truex Jr.

Truex has gotten off to a rough start with his new Furniture Row Racing team but he proved with Michael Waltrip Racing that he can run well enough to win and make the Chase. His second career victory came last year on the road course at Sonoma, so he has his eye on the June 22 race. His first career victory came at Dover and he also has top-five finishes at Michigan, Pocono and New Hampshire.

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Marcos Ambrose

Ambrose’s up-and-down NASCAR career continues (two top-10s, 21st in points), but he always has two races circled on is calendar — the two road-courses where the road-racing ace excels. Ambrose has two career victories — both at Watkins Glen, where he has five top-five finishes in six races. He also has two top-five and five top-10s on the Sonoma road course and is almost always a favorite to win both races. He may struggle on most tracks, but Ambrose can make the Chase by just winning one of the two road-course races.